Sentences with phrase «owl pellets»
Owl pellets are the remains or leftovers of animals that owls eat. Owls cannot digest certain parts of their prey, like bones and fur, so they regurgitate them in the form of pellets. Full definition
You'd be picking up owl pellets on a regular basis.
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Further into the space, Price has compiled the regurgitated aftermath of dissected owl pellets like a bone collector into a grim, blackened mixed - media assemblage (Owl Bones I, 1984).
Blood (pig, artist's own) and drawing ink on handmade paper (cellulose, Tremella fuciformis, Agrocybe aegerita, Nostoc flagelliforme, vermin remains harvested from owl pellets, ground human bone).
From skeletal remains found among ancient owl pellets, a team of scientists has recovered the first ancient DNA of the extinct West Indian mammal Nesophontes, meaning «island murder.»
From skeletal remains found among centuries - old owl pellets, Museum scientists have recovered the first DNA sample of the extinct Caribbean mammal genus Nesophontes.
Snowy owl pellets have been documented to contain parts of herring gulls, double - crested cormorants, great blue herons, peregrine falcons, barred owls, mink and house cat... they are badasses who can deal with some of the toughest predators out there.
Rebecca Terry, assistant professor in the Department of Integrative Ecology at Oregon State University, and a colleague report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that they used fossilised owl pellets preserved in a cave to measure changes in the ecosystem over a 13,000 year span.
Some days we bake or explore nature or go to the library or do science experiments or dissect owl pellets or garden or do arts and crafts or play games or a number of other things or all of the above or none of the above.
Blood (pig, artist's own) on handmade paper (cellulose, Tremella fuciformis, Agrocybe aegerita, Nostoc flagelliforme, vermin remains harvested from owl pellets, ground human bone).
Last week in our homeschooling group (Classical Conversations) the kids got to dissect owl pellets.
The relative abundance and damage patterns of the fossils representing small mammals and birds suggest that they are derived from undigested material regurgitated by owls (owl pellets).
Sure enough, her owl pellets later revealed she had eaten her mate, and we returned just one of the borrowed owls to the zoo.
Many of the other pieces in the «Dead or Alive» show include death imagery: skulls made out of seeds, dissected owl pellets, and fly carcasses crafted into hovering fairies.
Students will also dissect an owl pellet, picking out bones and trying to assemble a rodent skeleton.
Interact with one of our feathered friends and dissect an owl pellet to see just how different our digestive systems are.
We also enjoyed the live nest box webcam with the Tawney Owls at Lost Gardens of Heligan (more to come on this next week) and this morning I found an owl pellet in my open porch here in Dorset!